How to properly store snake shed?

so I wanted to keep and store Beans's shed and I have his first shed in a small box but needed a bigger one and when I asked my dad for one he mentioned that when he would have garter snakes (he found a lot of animals in the wild when he was a kid and only took them if they were sick or injured then he returned it to the wild, he even once raised a crow! he makes me think of [a character] from the secret garden which was my favorite book when I was little and it still is) he told me that if I didn't store them properly that the shed could rot overtime and become nasty, so I wanted to know if any of you know how to properly store them?



it censored part of his name but he was the character that befriended a lot of wild animals in the secret garden

Lay out to dry and then put in bag/box/etc. Never had a shed rot in a quarter of a century of reptile keeping


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I've stored many snake sheds for some years- many I've shared during "meet & greets" or other programs. I've never seen any issue except once when some moths ate them, so to prevent that, make sure they're tightly sealed up, if not a metal tin with a tight-fitting lid, at least a plastic bag with no holes & closed with a twist-tie.

oki thank you!

As mentioned, make sure they're completely dry before storing them, that's all I can think of that might have caused an issue. That or hungry moths like I had once, lol.

Hungry hungry hippos those little buggars are.

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Hungry hungry hippos those little buggars are.

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You got that right. They left only crumbs! :rofl:Sure caught me off-guard. That's when I lived in the desert- I don't know if that matters? There are different kinds of moths, depending where you live.

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You got that right. They left only crumbs! :rofl:Sure caught me off-guard.

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Right?! If moths are bad in a certain area I'd have to bring out the dang mothballs. But sadly they smell pretty bad. :salute:

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Right?! If moths are bad in a certain area I'd have to bring out the dang mothballs. But sadly they smell pretty bad. :salute:

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I don't use pesticides at all...not healthy for us, either. Breathing moth balls is bad for us, & also could harm your snakes.

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You got that right. They left only crumbs! :rofl:Sure caught me off-guard. That's when I lived in the desert- I don't know if that matters? There are different kinds of moths, depending where you live.

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Oh it definitely matters. Where I am, we don't have too many moths but tiger mosquitos are a real pain! I swear.. they could pick a lock if they wanted to. They practically laugh at people wear long sleeves to avoid them. Its even worse that they know where we all live:bow::tears:

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I don't use pesticides at all...not healthy for us, either. Breathing moth balls is bad for us, & also could harm your snakes.

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Oh definitely, I wouldn't keep them in the same room as the snakes. I'd probably go to one of our outer buildings like the woodshop or something. [We live on a farm so there is plentyyyy of room]

I live with mosquitoes now too...sometimes I sure miss the desert! :D

Haha right? It stinks because when we're free from them in the winter down here, we have to deal with stinkbugs. I probably kill an average of 15 a day 😂

But I swear.. nothing kills mosquitoes anymore. They laugh at me when I put bugspray on. And then I'm still left smelling like it for the rest of the day even when it doesn't workkk

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But I swear.. nothing kills mosquitoes anymore. They laugh at me when I put bugspray on. And then I'm still left smelling like it for the rest of the day even when it doesn't workkk

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Gotta love that...:rolleyes:

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But I swear.. nothing kills mosquitoes anymore. They laugh at me when I put bugspray on. And then I'm still left smelling like it for the rest of the day even when it doesn't workkk

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so true!! when my dad would go fishing and drag us all along he would have us use his bug spray he custom made! at first it worked, then our luck was sucked away by the dozens of mosquitos that swarmed us. he still would use the spray but I refused to because honestly I got less bites without using it.

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so true!! when my dad would go fishing and drag us all along he would have us use his bug spray he custom made! at first it worked, then our luck was sucked away by the dozens of mosquitos that swarmed us. he still would use the spray but I refused to because honestly I got less bites without using it.

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That's pretty sad if your dad's custom bug-spray turned out to entice them, as if you were marinated just for them? :rofl: I guess there's no need to give me the recipe...:cool:

it worked at first, I think they just got used to it and decided we smelt like yummy treats since the recipe has vanilla extract in it